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any of the leaves are found damping off, and then 

 only to remove those ; when it must be immediately 

 replaced and made air-tight. The operation of 

 grafting and putting on the glasses completed, plunge 

 the pots on a hot-bed with a brisk heat, and in about 

 six weeks the glasses may be taken off and the clay 

 and binding removed ; but it will be necessary to bind 

 on a little damp moss in lieu of the clay, and to keep 

 the glasses on in the heat of the day, taking "them olF 

 at night. In about three weeks or a month, they 

 will be in a fit state to be taken into the green-house, 

 when they will be found one of the greatest orna- 

 ments it can receive.' (Hort. Trans, vol. iii.) 



Mr. Nairn has in this Avay grafted scions with 

 blossom buds, and had ripe fruit the same year of 

 grafting : — he has gone even so far as to graft with both 

 fruit and flowers on the scion. When this is to be 

 done, he recommends the mandarin as the best to 

 commence with, as the fruit is more firmly fixed than 

 that of any of the other sorts : he says he has had 

 seven of these oranges on a plant in a pot, commonly 

 called a small sixty, which he justly observes is one 

 of the most curious and handsome ornaments that the 

 green-house can receive. 



One or two green-house plants are propagated by 

 budding, and more might be so increased, especially 

 if the scallope or French mode of budding Avere 

 adopted. The common mode of budding, by inserting 

 a bud with a portion of bark attached, under a piece 



